<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Leonardo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sombriks@gmail.com" target="_blank">sombriks@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<a href="http://slackbuilds.org/gitweb/?p=slackbuilds.git;a=summary" target="_blank">http://slackbuilds.org/gitweb/?p=slackbuilds.git;a=summary</a><br>
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why not use the git interface to grab such resoruces? for example,<br>
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<a href="http://slackbuilds.org/gitweb/?p=slackbuilds.git;a=blob_plain;f=libraries/Impacket/Impacket.SlackBuild;hb=HEAD" target="_blank">http://slackbuilds.org/gitweb/?p=slackbuilds.git;a=blob_plain;f=libraries/Impacket/Impacket.SlackBuild;hb=HEAD</a><br>
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the hash variable are "optional".<br>
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if there are something like PACKAGES.TXT will be possible to do a<br>
better guess on path<br></blockquote><div><br>Grabbing things from a web page, guessing bits here and there, isn't the right way to work. The gitweb interface, just like the "old" website, is meant to be used by human beings, and as such is subject to change and isn't efficient at all for batch downloads.<br>
<br>I agree with Asaf that an HTTP access to the repository would be useful (I for one am missing it right now). Any chance the admins could set up any kind of HTTP mirror?<br><br></div></div>-- <br>Mauro Giachero<br>